Quotes About Fear

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!

Fundamentally, I was a very shy and quiet person growing up, so it was just really difficult getting up on a stage. It was a perverse career choice really.

My doctor told me that I would have had a heart attack on stage.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

So many horses get stage fright when they enter the arena, and that's it - the performance is over.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.

I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.

I definitely get stage fright.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to students in another class across the hall.

My dad was listening to me noodle around on the guitar in the house and sing, and he was like, 'Man, you're funny, and you sound good when you do that. You should do that at a bar.' I had stage fright, so I was like, 'No, Dad. Leave me alone.'

I have big, big stage fright.

Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.